West Ham are unbeaten in their last eight Premier League home games against Aston Villa (W4 D4) since a 2-1 loss in April 2011 under Avram Grant.

Following their 4-1 win at Villa Park in October, Aston Villa are looking to complete the Premier League double over West Ham for just the second time, previously doing so in 2010-11.

Aston Villa are unbeaten in eight Premier League games in London under Unai Emery (W6 D2), winning the last four in a row, having lost eight of their previous nine under Steven Gerrard/Dean Smith. It’s their longest run without defeat, and joint-longest winning run in the capital in their league history.

After a winless run of six Premier League games from the start of the year (D3 L3), West Ham have now won two of their last three (D1). They’ve scored nine goals in these three matches, just one fewer than they’d managed in their previous 10 league games combined (10).

Aston Villa have won each of their last three Premier League away games by an aggregate score of 10-3. They last had a longer winning run on the road in the top-flight between November 2008 and February 2009 (7).

Only Arsenal (31) have scored more first-half goals than Aston Villa (29) in the Premier League this season, while only Manchester City (14) have been leading at half-time more often than the Villans (13).

Danny Ings scored his first Premier League goal of the season in West Ham’s 2-2 with Burnley last time out. He played 48 Premier League games for Aston Villa, and could become the third player to score a Premier League goal against four different teams he’s previously played for in the competition (Burnley, Liverpool, Southampton) along with Peter Crouch and Nicolas Anelka.

Ollie Watkins’ 16 Premier League goals have been worth 13 points to Aston Villa this season, with no player’s strikes being more valuable for their side this term. It’s the most points a Villa player has earned with his goals in a single top-flight campaign since Christian Benteke in 2012-13 (14).

All 12 of West Ham’s Premier League wins this season have been when Lucas Paquetá has been in the starting lineup, with the Hammers failing to win any of their seven games when the Brazilian doesn’t start (D3 L4).

Aston Villa striker Ollie Watkins has scored a brace in his last two Premier League away games, doing so in a 2-1 win at Fulham and a 3-2 win at Luton. Only two players have ever scored multiple goals in three consecutive away appearances in the competition – Dennis Bergkamp (September 1997) and Harry Kane (September 2017).